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To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.

Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.

Of or pert. to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization. -- Hallstatt, or Hallstattian, civilization, a prehistoric civilization of central Europe, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron…

To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.

or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc. Exploits done in the heart of France. Shak. Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agit…

st kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purpose…

The arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; hæmatogenesis.

Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.

The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.

ving six sides and six angles; six-sided. Hexagonal system. (Crystal.) See under Crystallization.

the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress has yet been made.…

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y combined with some substance to form a hydrate; -- distinguished from water of crystallization.

A hydrous salt; a salt combined with water of hydration or crystallization.

Containing water of hydration or crystallization.

Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; -- in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, and Dispnoea.

ion upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body.

to the name of which it is prefixed enters with a low valence, or in a low state of oxidization, usually the lowest, into the compounds indicated; as, hyposulphurous acid.

t depths the earth's surface; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying rocks. Opposed to epigene.